Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A statement by the Polish government said that the question of responsibility for the Katyn massacre had " weighed particularly painfully " on Polish-Soviet relations , and that the " long-awaited " Soviet admission made possible a relationship based on " partnership and true friendship " .
2 The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ;
3 The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution .
4 Well I mean half a bottle to do the top and the down , you can do that bit , measure if you like .
5 Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see .
6 It seems somewhat incongruous that the official programme contains half a page outlining regulations concerning the ‘ prohibition of alcohol and controlled containers within Murrayfield stadium ’ , while at the same time giving over no less than four pages to the advertising of alcohol .
7 Toni 's voice strongly improved and the guitarist could be heard For the final encore , singing The Dreamer , Toni crouched down at the front of the stage with a candle ; personally I found this a bit dated .
8 Then he swam half a mile to shore against a strong current .
9 As readers we expect such a persona to describe a scene , dramatise some situation , and express feelings .
10 Would a mere slap from an enraged mistress send such a woman fleeing from the shelter of Gloucester Castle ?
11 Adopting such a policy demands a fundamental change on a global scale , but its proposers , the Rev Guto Prys ap Gwynfor and the Rev Sin Alun , say belief in democratic rights is incompatible with support for the continuation of existing national states .
12 The Italians want such a group created right away , the British once the region 's disputes are settled ( whenever that may be ) .
13 Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period .
14 Deroualt and Merialdo ( 1984 ) used such a system to perform stenotypic transcription of unconstrained French with a vocabulary of 250,000 words .
15 For information on how to establish such a scheme write to Friends of the Earth , enclosing an s.a.e .
16 The critic writing in a newspaper with very limited space needs such a label to give the reader a general idea of what is on display .
17 When you consider the relentless quest for the luxury that has gone into each and every one , the cost of purchasing such a lodge does not seem excessive .
18 And Geoff , she said Geoff come round last night he said she is in such a muddle and it wants such a lot doing to it !
19 Not only is this statement admissible in tribunal proceedings , but unreasonable refusal to provide such a statement renders the employer , on the application of the employee to a tribunal , liable to a penalty payable to the employee of a sum equal to two weeks ' gross pay .
20 Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook .
21 But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter .
22 This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could .
23 It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans .
24 Now , you would not want such a thing bandied about , would you ? ’
25 The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me !
26 Miss Philimore had behaved pleasantly enough , but there had been a calculating set to her narrow mouth that made such a gesture seem unlikely in the extreme .
27 She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child .
28 There is therefore the broadest possible political consensus behind the pressures to enforce such a duty to disarm .
29 I think the principle was that if the terrorists came round the corner , then they 'd make such a noise shooting us that they 'd wake up everybody inside and give them time to lock the door , and that was really our only role .
30 ‘ Ships such as the traders use might make such a journey given that the conditions are not adverse .
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